Proposal to make webui-vue the standard

[Bills, Jason M]

On 9/18/2020 9:31 AM, Gunnar Mills wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> From some continued discussion yesterday in the GUI Design Workgroup, we 
> would like to see the community move away from phosphor-webuiand for 
> webui-vueto become the standard. All companies on the call were in favor 
> of this but I’ll let them chime in for themselves.

 From Intel, we use a custom fork of phosphor-webui for our current 
platforms.  We plan to abandon this fork and move to webui-vue for our 
future platforms.  Thanks!

> 
> As stated in previous emails there are many benefits to the webui-vueGUI.
> webui-vueadds:
> 
>   * Improved user experience based on feedback from OpenBMC users
>   * Conformance with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1
>     specification
>   * Ability to easily theme to meet brand guidelines
>   * Dynamically generate navigation
>   * Language translation-ready
>   * Full Redfish
>   * Modern front-end framework with an active community and future
>     development roadmap
> 
> The phosphor-webuifront-end framework, AngularJS, will sunset in June of 
> 2021. Based on this, the most active contributing companies have moved 
> to webui-vueresulting in a decrease of development activity on 
> phosphor-webuiover the past six months.
> We also believe webui-vueallows us to move forward other areas, for 
> example, turning off exposing the D-Bus interfaces as a REST API. This 
> change would break phosphor-webui. Since webui-vueuses Redfish this is 
> not the case for it. 
> https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/bmcweb/+/29344
> As requested, below is an updated timeline:
> With Virtual Media merged, 8 identified issues to reach parity:
> https://github.com/openbmc/webui-vue/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aphosphor-webui-feature-parity
> IBM plans to work on, with an estimated completion of mid-October:
> 
>   * Two file Firmware upload (#9)
>   * Loading webui-vue from the BMC causes content-security-policy errors
>     (#32)
>   * Radio button for DHCP - Network settings (#36)
> 
> And will work on when the Redfish interfaces for these are implemented:
> 
>   * Remote Logging (#34)
>   * SNMP (#33)
> 
> The last 2 identified issues, we are looking for community help but 
> might take these up ourselves one day:
> 
>   * Mutual TLS (#30)
>   * CSRF allow list (#29)
> 
> The last issue, Next URL forward (#28) has a review up.  Thanks Mateusz!
> 
> Please let us know if we have missed any features needed to reach parity 
> with phosphor-webui.
> 
> Would any of these outstanding issues keep the community from accepting 
> webui-vueas the standard?
> 
> Not sure officially making webui-vuethe standard means a lot, we plan to 
> update docs/ links to point at webui-vueandview as the first step 
> towards eventually deprecating / archiving phosphor-webui.
> 
> Is there any objection to this?
> 
> Some previous discussion on these topics here:
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2020-August/022637.html
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2020-February/020491.html
> 
> Thanks,
> Derick, Gunnar, and Yoshie